clone 493007
reassign -1 developers-reference
retitle -1 suggest to use po4a for man page translations
block -1 by 493007
thanks
Hello Christian,
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:37:15AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (debian@helgefjell.de):
>
> > + If a loclized man page for a certain command is provided, it should
>
> s/loclized/localized
Yes, of course.
> > + either be up to date or it should be clearly visible that this version
> > + is outdated (either by a note in the beginning or by showing the
> > + missing/changed parts in English instead of the target language).
> > + Where the build system of the localized man page does not provide the
> > + option to enable this Debian developers and maintainers are asked to
> > + take this issue to their upstream to resolve.
>
> I'm not sure that the policy talks about "Debian developers". It
> probably talks about package maintainers or so....
This sounds better, so:
+ Where the build system of the localized man page does not provide the
+ option to enable this package maintainers are asked to take this issue
+ to their upstream to resolve.
> I would also recommend turning the "should" to "must" for native
> packages. It probably needs the following to be included in the
> Developer's Reference:
I am not sure, do you mean the first should:
it should be clearly visible -> it must be clearly visible?
Could you suggest a sentence, so I can grab the idea?
> > +
> > + If Debian developers themselves provide a framework to support
> > + localized man pages this framework must fulfill the requirements of
> > + the previous paragraphs. In this case it is recommended to use po4a
> > + for localization.
> > +
>
>
> That latter part probably belongs more to the Developer's
> Reference. Indeed, a section about po4a and a simple way to setup a
> framework for localized manpages would be a great addition to it.
Fine with me, thus cloned and reassigned.
Greetings
Helge
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